Introduction 👋🏿
We welcome everything from suggesting what content you’d like to see in the app, writing an exercise or meditation, to the complete production of a collection of exercises with a specific purpose, added to our content management system. We also collaborate to adapt content from other contexts to the 29k platform.
💕Join the 29k community
Please join our Slack community for content discussions, suggestions and collaborations.
Code of conduct 👫
This project and everyone participating in it uses the 29k Code of Conduct as a compass in our co-creation process. By contributing, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior to help@29k.org.
👁️ Quality and copyright
Please note that 29k:
- publishes psychological interventions based on science.
- applies a creative commons license, allowing anyone to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon a work, even commercially, as long as they credit the original creator. Everything we publish in the app thus becomes readily available for all to use in other contexts, as long as 29k is credited.
- applies strict quality criteria for content. A 29k editor reviews all suggested material and we only publish content where the science behind it, and the writing in it, meet our quality standards.
What is 29k content? 🤝
- What do we offer?
- Where do we meet our users?
- Who do we write for?
Connection. Hope, empowerment, knowledge.
Changing behavior, making wise decisions, dealing with complexity, loving yourself and others, pursuing goals, and saving the planet is a necessity – not a luxury. But those skills aren’t taught in schools. You can learn them, right here, right now, with 29k.
The focus of the app is inner development, where we assume the user is in a good-enough place to stretch herself for the future.
Some content cater for needs that can come up during challenging times; anxiety, grief, worry and stress, for example. They will be labeled basics/foundations, fundamentals, or something similar, all gathered under one theme.
We meet our users in a state where they long for something.
Something new, something different, something better, something more.
Change.
That means our users may be beginners on a journey, or they may have previous experience with inner development. What they have in common is they want to be curious, committed, and caring. For themselves, for others, for the planet. But they do not have (all) the psychological tools needed. 29k does.
When it’s time to strengthen your inner foundation and when it’s time to add new branches and stretch your inner capabilities. We’re here for you all the way.
(Our language aims to be understandable for an English-speaking 15-year old.)
Our core user is committed to learning and inner development.
Age does not matter, gender does not matter, profession does not matter, education does not matter. But the actual context on this day matters. The drive to do something differently from yesterday.
We base our content on current, scientifically-backed interventions that have been proven effective for a given condition or context. Almost all 29k content is rooted in Contextual Behavioral Science, but we are open to incorporating elements from traditional CBT and other "third wave" therapies and theories when appropriate, emphasizing the importance of theory.
Most of 29k content is theoretically aligned with psychological flexibility. It is based on the idea that our behavior is affected by both our internal processes as well as our external environment. Psychological flexibility focuses on how we can use our internal resources (thoughts, beliefs, values, emotions) to interact with our external environment in order to live meaningfully and more in line with our values. Psychological flexibility consists of three main components:
- Awareness: Directing attention to the here and now, acknowledging thoughts, feelings and experiences.
- Openness: Willingness to have, and acceptance towards, unwanted or unpleasant experiences.
- Engagement: Taking actions that are consistent with our values, even in the face of difficulty.
All content in the 29k app should be backed by science, but the degree of evidence may vary:
- Meta-analysis of meta- analysis, Meta-analysis or systematic reviews made on this type of intervention
- Randomised study proving the effectiveness of this kind of intervention
- Promising pilot studies, experienced researcher or expert in the field that wants to collaborate on this topic
- If no evidence yet, is it promising enough for us to help with the research? Requires:
How to write 29k content ✅
There are two different settings for delivering 29k content: live and async. Both settings needs to be catered for in writing, where the live is a group setting (with anyone or with friends) and the async is done by a single user alone.
All 29k sessions are built up by the same lego blocks. For now, there are five different ones:
Host block Live only: guiding notes with instructions for the host.
Instruction block Async only: Short introduction/outro in text + image - if needed.
Content block - preferably audio file accompanied by video/animation//illustration delivery of background info, instructions or tasks. Live: Guiding notes for host, if needed.
Reflection block Live only - allowing users to reflect on a question or perform a task for a certain period of time. Guiding question in text: guiding notes for host.
Sharing block - allowing users to share their experience or reflection with others, as well as experiencing others’ reflections. Live: live. Async: prerecorded sharings, users upload text sharings.
All blocks may be repeated when appropriate, then template texts should be modified to not repeat unnecessary things.
- See templates below for the blocks to structure your content writing.
- To learn how we write, visit:
- Learn how to set up a collection of exercises/meditations around a theme:
- Learn how to add content to the CMS, (content management system), to suggest content for review here (WIP).CMS introduction
Templates for exercise lego blocks
Title
Description (What, how, why?)
LIVE (with friends or with anyone)
Start the session when you're ready to go.
Welcome
I am X and today we will work for around 30 minutes on yyy.
We’ll be doing rough agenda of session - ex. meditation followed by time for reflection and sharing with each other. _____
Let’s start with a mini check-in.
How are you feeling right now? Please answer in two-three words.
X, would you like to start?
Let everyone in the session, including yourself, check in one by one.
Thank you all for checking in. Let’s get started.
👁 Host
Content manuscript, delivered in audio file (with animation/video if needed)
👁 Illustration / Text line / Video / Audio
Now we’ll take x minutes to reflect on our own.
Main question Further explanation/second question if needed _____
You can take notes on a piece of paper or just mental notes in your head. And there is no right or wrong here, our answers are our own.
x minutes starting now.
Press play to start the timer.
That’s x minutes and it’s time to move on.
👁 Reflection timer - Reflection question/s
Now we are getting into the sharing part. We have three rules for sharing:
- What is said in here, stays in here.
- All you need to do is listen. There is no fixing, helping or advice-giving needed. We are just showing up and exploring what ourselves and others are going through.
- Everything on the inside is okay. Anger, love, hatred, sadness. Whatever shows up. No wrongs, no rights. It is what it is.
_____
There will be a timer set for x minutes as an indicator. If you don’t want to share you can always say ‘pass’.
Who would like to start?
Let everyone (or as many as you got time for) share one by one.
Press play to start the timer. Re-start for each new sharing.
Thank you so much everyone.
👁 Sharing timer - Sharing question
Well done. If you’re up for it, you can continue what we started here today with a mission to bring this into your everyday life.
mission description
_____
Before we leave this space let’s do a mini check-out.
How are you feeling right now? Has anything shifted? Please answer in two-three words.
Who would like to start?
Let everyone in the session check out one by one.
Thank you all for checking out and for joining this session today.
_____
Finish session to send everyone off to the exit experience.
👁 Host
ASYNC (with yourself)
If needed, a short introduction before starting off.
👁 text + image
Content manuscript, delivered in audio file (with animation/video if needed)
👁 Illustration / Text line / Video / Audio
Now we are getting into the sharing part. We have three rules for sharing:
What is said in here, stays in here.All you need to do is listen.There is no fixing, helping or advice-giving needed. We are just showing up and exploring what ourselves and others are going through.Everything on the inside is okay.Anger, love, hatred, sadness. Whatever shows up. No wrongs, no rights. It is what it is.
_____
There will be a timer set for
<x minutes>
as an indicator. If you don’t want to share you can always say ‘pass’.
Who would like to start?
Let everyone (or as many as you got time for) share one by one.
Press play to start the timer. Re-start for each new sharing.
Thank you so much everyone.
👁 Sharing timer - Sharing question
Mission
Outro
👁 text + image